Word: moralisms
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...biopics contain inventions and conflations in their attempts to give coherence and dramatic impact to messy and ambiguous lives. We don't go to such films in search of full factual accuracy. Generally, we want inspiration from them, a sense that we can take meaning, even moral instruction, from the life on view. Fur, however, raises these stakes. It invents an entirely imaginary figure-a grotesquely hirsute man-and brings him to the center of the story. Where he serves as the beast to Diane's beauty, horrifying her, titillating her, then enlisting her sympathetic curiosity and, finally, her love...
According to D’Souza, the Iraq war should not be viewed as a moral effort to spread democracy everywhere, but as a self-interested endeavor...
...with incumbent Steve Chabot trailing at 46 percent. A Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Grove Insight Poll also has Cranley in the lead at 49 percent to Chabot’s 40 percent. The 1999 Harvard Law School graduate spent a year and a half as a teaching fellow in Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” and Historical Studies B-61, “The Warren Court.” “John Cranley, then a law student, was a smart, energetic Justice TF, much appreciated by his students,” Bass Professor of Government...
...Harvard is a campus that prides itself on tolerance of others, regardless of their backgrounds, personal beliefs, and moral decisions. Unfortunately, HRL’s posters violate this tolerance by attacking rape victims on a very personal level, prioritizing an ethical stand over the health of fellow students. These assaults, moreover, are not beneficial to the campus discourse. Certainly, HRL’s posters incite debate. But because they do so at the expense of rape victims, they turn what ought to be a healthy, educational discussion into a vicious polemic of name-calling, in which the attacked individuals likely...
...that means primarily women. It's no wonder many view Head's arguments as not just outrageous, but sexist. "He says that a woman cannot be considered moral and upstanding and have written romance," says Houston romance writer Jessica Trapp. "You can be a slut, or you can be prude-and there's nothing in the middle." Romance novels, she adds, promote monogamous, loving relationships. "Calling it porn totally misses the point," she says. She thinks politicians in both races are skirting real policy issues by talking about sex scenes. If they don't like a book, they should...